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Setting Boundaries
- Most integrity gaps emerge when we ignore or never set our non-negotiables.
- Every decision you make about how you spend your time is a trade-off.
- Just because you can make something fit into your calendar doesn't mean you should make it fit.
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It’s up to you to know where that line is. What are your non-negotiables? That’s something to think about before you dive into a new job.
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The Integrity Gap
The disconnect between our stated values and our actual behaviours is called an "integrity gap."
These gaps often emerge gradually, when we find ourselves making incremental values trade-offs that begin to erode our sense of personal integrity. If we are burned out or have ...
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The Self Audit
- Check in with yourself about what motivates you and what you consider to be most important in your life.
- Create an activity-by-activity list of how you spend your time.
- Label each activity by whether you consider it an "energy creator," "neutral" or "energy reducer".
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Test Yourself To Navigate The Future
- Conduct a skill-gap analysis.
- List the key skills needed for your dream job and then grade yourself in each skill area to find where you are strongest-and where you may need additional training and development.
- Create and test several hypotheses for a career future to gauge w...
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Coping mechanisms
People who are overloaded will have a strong impulse to avoid or escape anxiety:
- Avoidance could mean putting off a discussion with your boss.
- Escape could mean rushing into an important decision, because you want to escape needing to think about it further.
4. Identify your trade-offs
Unexpected surprises will crop up and threaten to throw your whole project out of scope and off schedule. In those moments, you’ll be glad that you identified your trade-offs early on. Your trade-offs allow you to see where you have the most wiggle room available in a project, should you need to ...
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